A Guide to the Baylor Institute for Oral History Program,
1987

The Baylor Institute for Oral History
Program, 1987, comprises one 7½ IPS reel-to-reel audiotape recording of the
half-hour program Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black
Families on the Texas Frontier. Interviews conducted by the Baylor
Institute for Oral History discuss the settlement and lives of African-American
slaves and freedmen in Lincolnville and Coryell County, Texas.

In the 1980s, the Baylor Institute for Oral History at Baylor University in Waco,
Texas, conducted interviews about the settlement and lives of African-Americans in
Lincolnville and Coryell County, Texas. On June 19, 1987, the interviews aired on
PBS radio stations as part of the half-hour program Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black Families on the Texas Frontier,
produced by M. Rebecca Sharpless and David Stricklin.

The Baylor Institute for Oral History Program, 1987, comprises one 7½ IPS
reel-to-reel audiotape recording of the half-hour program Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black Families on the Texas Frontier.
Interviews conducted by the Baylor Institute for Oral History discuss the settlement
and lives of African-American slaves and freedmen in Lincolnville and Coryell
County, Texas.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe
Center’s “History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project,” 2009-2011.